posted on July 12, 2001 12:22:14 PM
It was bad enough when eBay, or eGreed as they have become to be known, added banners to their site. Sellers pay good money to list our stuff on eBay, I'm not the biggest and I'm not the smallest seller on ebay, this month I will pay ebay about 2000 dollars to list on their site. Now buyers have to view the banners for a several seconds before the list they are searching will pop up.
I'm a seller mostly and was unaware that ebay had been doing this, I have been searching for a particular printer and I was sick and tired of the banners. I got so tired of it I went to a site that is a search engine, that searches web sites that sell computer equipment, and I just bought the printer from an outfit in San Diego and it should be here tomorrow, could I have gotten it cheaper on ebay? who knows. But if I was put off enough to not shop eBay you know others are as well.
So I downloaded adsubtract. It works great so that I don't have to look at the stupid banners, the spot on the screen where the banner should be is now blank but the but there is still a long lag time between the time you click the back button and the page is displayed.
The one bad thing is it will now block all banners everywhere, this is the one reason that I didn't use software like this in the past. If you want free sites to stay free, and low cost sites to stay low cost they are going to have to subsidize themselves somewhere, if they can make it on banner advertisements, great.
eBay at least listened when we voiced our concern the first time over the banner issues and made some changes. As eBays track record has shown, the spam recommend emails included, once they make up their minds to do something they can care less about what the sellers want. Even with people like Bob and his jacket auction drawing attention to problems they smooth it over and are still sending the spam emails.
The banners are here and they have made us swallow this pill, be it a small or large one. You know that ebay will not remove them, even if they are making a few dollars a day off them(I'm sure it is more).
So what to do?.
When I am on a search page I just right click and select open in a new window if it is not what I want I close the window and I don't have to wait for ebays pop up/delayed banner ads and I'm sure it will count as less impressions on the banners if the people with the banners adds are count them.
I just added a link to all my EOA emails letting people know about adsubtract and how they don't have to view banners on ebay if they don't want to, I also added to please support banners on sites that depend on them for their monies, not doing so may be the end to sites that depend on the revenue.
posted on July 12, 2001 04:57:22 PMCrystalline_Sliver
they work if all your interested in is not viewing the banners, but the way ebay is doing it you still have the page waiting to load, the delay is still there, then the page pops up. It's time for another jacket auction LOL
posted on July 13, 2001 07:08:47 AM
Uh huh, and the jacket should probably say, "I hate stupid Javascript tricks!" or "I hate stupid marketing tricks!"
In general, I'm all for supporting "free" websites, but not if the cost is going to be tracking by third-party direct marketers like DoubleClick and its ilk, so now I'm also all for blocking cookie, JS, and bug-laden garbage from direct marketers, or anything animated. I do click on some ads, but only the ones that don't follow me around the Web or annoy me when I'm trying to read the content that drew me to the site in the first place.
On eBay, I don't let any ads appear because I'm already indirectly paying them (by buying products that give FVFs to eBay), don't want cookies or bugs, and even as a buyer, find it distasteful that the "venue" itself more or less competes with the sellers I'm buying from. Even with blocking ads, however, eBay's done enough to annoy me down to a third of my former buying volume.
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What's being done in the name of direct marketing nowadays is crazy.
The above are all just my opinions, except where I cite facts as such.
Oh, I am not dc9a320 anywhere except AW. Any others are not me.
Is eBay is changing from a world bazaar into a bizarre world?
posted on July 13, 2001 07:58:02 AM
I don't know if this is the same thing or not. I've had a lot of trouble the last few weeks searching ebay. It seems as if it takes forever for pages to load, if they even load at all. Especially completed search pages.
I decided to try searching today with java and java script turned off, and all the pages are loading super quick.
I don't know if this will help anyone else, but it sure is a relief for me.
